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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Description for Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Paperback. Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book gives an account of the hidden role of chance in life and the markets. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: KFFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable?
This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141031484
SKU
V9780141031484
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99-11
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering ... Read more
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